Full Name
Olivia Moy
Job Title
Assc Professor
Company
Lehman College
Speaker Bio
Olivia Loksing Moy is assistant professor of English at Lehman College where she specializes in nineteenth-century British literature. She also serves as faculty on them(Dis)ability Studies minor, faculty advisor for the Lehman LGBTQ+ Alliance, and director of The CUNY Rare Book Scholars. Professor Moy is Director of the English Honors Program (EHP) and Associate Director of the Lehman Scholars Program (LSP) and Macaulay Honors College (MHC). Moy was named a 2019 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) and is the recipient of a Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. research grant from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. She serves as Vice President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA). Along with Dhipinder Walia, she is co-organizer of the Activism in Academia Symposia and, with Lise Esdaile, co-coordinates the 2019 “Adjuncts in Action and Dialogue” series (Activism in Academia IV).